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By Mark Morrison You never forget the first time you run a game of Call of Cthulhu. If I close my eyes, I can still picture the room: Candles burning, all else in darkness. My friends sitting around the table, leaning in to hear properly as I quietly describe the body. As the description ends I bec … read more

We've started a new series of posts on the Chaosium blog called 'Table Tales', by Chaosium's Mark Morrison. Table Tales is all about the fun of playing Chaosium games, and Mark has pretty much played them all, or close to it. For many, Mark perhaps needs little introduction: he goes way back with C … read more

By Mark Morrison Behold, a new header graphic appears! Thanks to our talented graphic designer Monika Godyń for assembling this wonderful collage from covers by Loïc Muzy for Pendragon, Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest and Basic Roleplaying, along with Ossi Hiekkala's cover for Age of Vikings. So, … read more

By Mark Morrison You were living your life, and one day everything changed. Maybe it started with a ripple in the South Pacific. Perhaps a wave broke as strange statuary surfaced on an uncharted island. Before you could stop it, a nightmare of wings and tentacles and doom rose from the depths.In ot … read more

By Mark Morrison It’s Gen Con weekend, and the Chaosium crew are greeting old friends and making new ones at the main booth (511 in the exhibit hall), and in the Chaosium event room across the hall (ICC139). Games are happening all weekend. Meanwhile, I’m at home in Australia, but tha … read more